Eating Good In Our Home

Okay, so maybe it's not as catchy as Applebee's "eating good in the neighborhood", but whatever. In an attempt to save time and money, we decided to go grocery shopping on the weekend and plan out everything we're cooking for the week that we're eating in. We also believe in an equal opportunity household, so this week, Dan got a chance to cook a man's meal!

MONDAY ("Hong Kong" style baked pork chops)

WEDNESDAY (rib eye with baked potato and broccoli)

THURSDAY (healthy Chinese style bibimbap with light saber chopsticks)

Mexican Night!

Dinner & lunch with carnitas! Ole!

I've been posting a few pictures here and there about what a "regular" dinner is at the S residence. Dan has little or no exposure with his cooking, so here goes! This is by far my favorite meal made by my husband. I would like to thank the pressure cooker we got from our wedding and you, pig... for your delicious pork shoulder which later turned into Dan's first attempt at carnitas. We had carnitas nachos (still a work in process with the nachos) and carnitas tacos last night (test trial #1) and it turned out great!

Cinco de Mayo, we're ready for you!

What a cutie!

Viva Las Vegas!

For our first quarter anniversary (just kidding... it just happened that SW had a great deal on tickets), my husband and I took a weekend trip to Vegas. It was my first time there, so now I can finally say I went to Vegas.

We spent an entire day on the strip and boy was I tired! Vegas is probably not my thing since the smoking killed my nose and things just didn't seem all that great to me. I will admit the architecture is quite impressive though.

So what did I enjoy about Vegas? The M&M's store and the outlet mall... with the 8.1% tax! haha~ Viva Las Vegas!

What stands out?

Although dinner was just Chinese at home with potstickers and XO seafood udon, we did not have your typical chopsticks. What is this here?! Lightsaber chopsticks?! Yeah... guess who bought those.

For those of you that are interested, the chopsticks are basically for looks only, it's hard to use them since it's made of plastic and feels very weak. The green (Yoda) chopsticks are shorter than the regular blue and red ones though.

Ovo

I love Apple! I also love the fact that my husband works for Apple.

Anyway, it turns out that Apple bought out the entire 4pm Ovo event with all you can eat food in the tents. A popcorn and soda costs $11, so when we went the first time (on our own, before we knew that Apple was treating their employees out, it was way out of our budget). Together we devoured 2 hot dogs, 2 sodas, 2 lemonades, 2 Haagen Daaz bars, 1 cotton candy and 1 Red Vine pack. Yeah, we're Chinese and we got our money's worth!

Can't wait for "O" next weekend...

Two Months!

It's not like I'm counting or anything... but it's already been a blissful two months already! Seriously, I'm not one of those crazy wives who count and celebrate every single month...

I don't know what it is about married life, but time just seems to flow by like no other. Over this two month period, I have learned to become a better housewife by cooking better and better dinners for the husband when he comes home from a long day's at work.

hoisin baked wings, celery and vermicilli with crab meat

fried rice, miso soup and Korean short ribs

curry udon, hot & sour soup and sweet & spicy wings

And in the span of two months, we also got a new daughter...

Meet Dot Shinn!